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PLATE CCCCXII: 
PHALENA FLEXUOSA., 
YORKSHIRE Y MOTH. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER, 
Antenne gradually tapermg from the bafe to the tip: wings in 
general deflected when at reft. Fly by night. 
* Noctua. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Noctua Fuiexvosa. Anterior wings reddifh-grey varied with 
fub-ferruginous: in the middle a flexuous white 
' ftreak inclofing a pale lobiform fpot. 
This fpecies of Noétua is defcribed upon the authority of an 
unique Britifh fpecimen in the cabinet of Mr. Drury, that has not 
been hitherto defcribed by any writer. It was taken in Yorkthire, 
and has been denominated among Englifh colleétors to whom the 
sircumftance was known, the Yorkfhire Y Moth. We name it 
Flexuofa from the whitifh flexuous lme, which originates at the inner 
edge of the firft wings pear the bafe, and pafling from thence 
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